UH Gets Three Top Tier Oil and Gas Researchers

Houston, TX -- Gov. Greg Abbott's office announced that three of the brightest minds in the country will be coming to the University of Houston this fall. The scientists made the decision after being wooed by the governor's office with the promise of millions of dollars in state grant money.

Andrea Prosperetti, the former Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins and the Berkhoff Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, will be joining the university's engineering department.

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Prosperetti is one of the leading scholars in the field of multiphase flow, how materials with different states or different chemical properties move. Understanding and being able to manipulate multiphase flow is crucial to the successful extraction of oil and gas.

Prosperetti is the recipient of a $3.06 million grant.
John Suppe, former geology department chair and current professor emeritus at Princeton and former professor of geology at the National Taiwan University, will be joining UH's geology department.

Suppe is an expert on structural geology -- the study of the formation of mountains and fault lines -- and tectonics. Suppe's work is invaluable to the fields of petroleum geology and mining geology.
Suppe is the recipient of a $2.4 million grant.

Ganesh Thakur, president and global advisor Thakur Services. Thakur is the only grant recipient headed to UH with a private sector background. He spent the majority of his career as a high ranking executive at Chevron, where he became a recognized expert in the field of reservoir engineering and management.

Reservoir engineering and management applies scientific principles to drainage problems that arise during oil and gas extraction. Thakur is the recipient of a $3.04 million grant.

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